Enhancing the Pangeo Community with NASA Earth Observing System (EOS) Data

Remote Sensing

2018-10-19Jeff Siarto

One of our main missions at Element 84 is to help reduce the amount of time that researchers (scientific and corporate, alike) spend wrangling, downloading, cleaning, and prepping data in pursuit of their primary research question. A recent NASA study put that number at around 60%–leaving less than half of a scientist’s time available for data analysis and all their remaining responsibilities. We know we can do better.

Our goal is to dramatically reduce that 60% and improve the tools scientists use to work with big data. This grant gives us a chance to apply this philosophy to NASA data with proven partners and provides a roadmap for other domains like genomics and disaster response.